Technorage!
“You seem a little frustrated today,” Spence says.
“What was your first clue?” says Admin.
“I guess when you kicked the wastebasket across the room.”
“Yes, I’m frustrated. Somewhere on this computer is a new picture of the quilt the Plunderers made us and I was going to post it today. But can I find it? No! This old computer has a mind like a sieve.”
“Time for a new one?”
“Who’s going to set it up?”
“Perhaps one of the kids will appear.”
“We can only hope.”
Welcome Kellie, Charley Dickens, Sheba from AZ.
Tags: plunderers, quilt, technology
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8:34 am on June 11th, 2012
Good morning! Mom is hurting today, from all that lifting yesterday. They had to get 3 ton of pellet bags down to the house yesterday. We have no idea what 3 ton means.
8:43 am on June 11th, 2012
Greetings All!
OHs: Three tons!! Great Scott!! Take good care of your mom today, and wait on her hand and paw.
8:45 am on June 11th, 2012
BelleStarr: (whispering) I don’t want your two-legged mama to splort when she gives her speech. One of the many classes the Prof teaches is public speaking. I know he’d be happy to give her some tips….
T&G: (whispering) Same goes for the Royla Mum.
8:55 am on June 11th, 2012
Barb says she has an idea about 3 tons, but what are pellet bags?
Are you talking about a horse feed? At 50 lbs. a bag, that’s a lot of bags.
Morning all. I got Barb up at 4:15 this morning. I thought she would want to know that a storm was coming. I whined and panted and snuggled and licked her face till she got up and made coffee. We sat on the front porch and watched the sunrise and the rain. She says she will need a looonng nap later.
8:55 am on June 11th, 2012
Hey Spence and Admin, just get a 10 or 12 year old in there. They’ll fix you up in no time!
3 TONS. That’s like picking up The Pack and moving them three times. Ow
YSAS likes to act, he does not like to do public speaking. When he does, he acts as if he is a public speaker. snicker. Really snickering because it’s true.
Morning all! Today is a busy day. Over the river and through the woods and down the hills we go . . .
8:59 am on June 11th, 2012
Maggie, the pellets they had to get down to the house, and into our cellar, are wood pellets for our pellet stove. That stove provides most of our heat in the winter.
We would let Mom and Pop kmow if a storm was coming too. We think it is much better that they know. Mom says we won’t mind them so bad now that we got A/C. We’ll see about that, but we are enjoying the cool.
9:07 am on June 11th, 2012
Melanie, Mom says that there is a slight possibility that she may be travelling up along the Hudson near the end of the month. Dima has travelled that way in the past and is certain he would be called upon to navigate once again. Meashka thinks he sleeps on the job and her guidance would be much more alert.
9:08 am on June 11th, 2012
Say, don’t we have a picture of the Plunderer Quilt in Dish?
9:14 am on June 11th, 2012
Oley, OK, now that makes more sense. Do you have an outside cellar entrance with the double doors that open up? A lot of older houses have those. That would make it a little easier.
9:23 am on June 11th, 2012
We do ave an outside cellar entrance. It has a regular door (with a cool arch). It is above ground at that end of the cellar.
The pellets were delivered up on the driveway, about 200 ft from house. So they had to be loaded into the truck, then unloaded and carried into the cellar. Kat helped a lot. The rest of us stayed in the cool and dreamt that the job was done.
9:31 am on June 11th, 2012
Our 48 seconds with Spencer:
Showed up for his autograph session 15 minutes early, so we only had 20 or so people ahead of us. My wife and son are librarians so we went to the table as a group. We mentioned that we were all initially from Phoenix, and “The Valley” seems awfully familiar to us. He admitted that this is how Chet sees the place, so that ended a debate in our family about “The Valley.” He then autographed one book to my wife’s library, one to our dog Yuji and one to my son. He asked if Yuji is enrolled as a friend of Chet and I affirmed that he is. Didn’t get a chance to share this (the 40 people behind us were glaring), but we’ve been kicking around titles for future Chet books:
Chet Mate: As soon as Chet finds the love of his life she is dognapped by Somali pirates vacationing in Arizona
The Hound and the fury: When Bernie is mad, Chet gets madder.
The path of leashed resistance: A former perp sues the agency for bite marks, causing a judge to restrict Chet’s movement.
Sorry. We just couldn’t help ourselves…..
9:49 am on June 11th, 2012
Yes, I want to see a new picture of the quilt!
Computers and cars that don’t work correctly make life difficult.
Good morning all.
9:53 am on June 11th, 2012
I think Spence made up a new word for the title today. Let’s see…what does it mean?
9:57 am on June 11th, 2012
Techno-Rage!….heh!heh!heh!heh!…Admin kicking the wastebasket…heh!snort!heh!…The amazing part of this story is between the two of them they managed to take a new photo of the quilt – I just wonder if they were able to up-load it to the old computer…heh! ….I do hope the quilt is holding together okay. Those squares that I am on better not be all frazzled at the edges…gruffle!
10:00 am on June 11th, 2012
Terry: I’m laughing at your titles. Very good!
10:01 am on June 11th, 2012
Thank you Rio! That’s it.
10:02 am on June 11th, 2012
LEAVING 10 MINUTES AGO! But, had to tell you that a picture of The Royals’ Mum’s bear made the front page of the local paper!!
10:02 am on June 11th, 2012
Terry!…Dawg! Thanks for that report on your time with Spencer…snort!…Good to know he is prompt for his appointments…heh!
10:04 am on June 11th, 2012
Melanie!…When you get back take a photo of the front page or give us a link to your local paper….wheeze!…How exciting for Stinky Mama – and what great advertising too…heh!
10:14 am on June 11th, 2012
Congratulations T&G’s mom.
Bear: Yes there are pictures of the quilt on Dishlickers but they aren’t all downloading for me today. If you type “quilt” in the search box on this page, go to the post of September 21, 2010, and see the pictures that Spence posted here.
10:14 am on June 11th, 2012
Waiting for a kid to show up to set up a new computer…sounds like my mom only she has to wait until someone else’s kid shows up.
Hope we get to see the new picture of the quilt.
Those are good book titles, Terri, and thanks for your report on meeting Spencer.
10:29 am on June 11th, 2012
Technorage is a very good word. We will remember and use it.
Rio, This made my newspaper: The ERA for the Rockies starting pitchers is 6.20. Oh good grief!
10:46 am on June 11th, 2012
For some reason our last two tries at posting this didn’t go thru.
Thanks for the update, Terry, and we love those titles!
11:13 am on June 11th, 2012
We like those titles too. Way more creative than we are.
Another showing has been scheduled for tomorrow. Not the same peole from last night, but a new one. We are excited!
11:17 am on June 11th, 2012
Natasha Trethewey has been named U.S. Poet Laureate.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jun/11/natasha-trethewey-us-poet-laureate
11:25 am on June 11th, 2012
Bee, They played a Fresh Air interview of Natasha Tretheway on our NPR station on Saturday. Mom listened while mowing and she really enjoyed it.
11:29 am on June 11th, 2012
Terry: Great reporting! We like your book titles too, especially the one about Somali pirates vacationing in Arizona. 🙂
Thanks B: Will go back and check it out. Also, thanks for the Natasha Tretheway link.
Admin: Just go Back in Time to September 2010 and problem solved.
Here’s a link to great summer reading: http://www.squidoo.com/fictionaldogbooks
11:45 am on June 11th, 2012
Vaca-Rage!….My friend just sent me a text on my little Go-Phone…sniff!…Seems she has been told she can’t take her vacation to the mountains after all because it lands the same time as the new crappy software change-over at the busy-place…wheeze!…Talk about Techno-Rage, well.
11:53 am on June 11th, 2012
Howlers: Blast! I didn’t hear the interview. I’ll see if I can find it online.
Rio: Your friend should be given an extra week’s vacation after the changeover.
12:02 pm on June 11th, 2012
Rio, not just an extra week’s vacation, but an extra week’s pay as well!
12:14 pm on June 11th, 2012
Rio: Nothing worse than being told your vacation has just been cancelled.
Howlers: I see Kat did a fine job supervising yesterday’s very important moving of the pellets.
Royal Mum: Congrats on the newspaper photo of your fabulous bear.
Now off to run errands.
12:17 pm on June 11th, 2012
Rio – software change-overs are the WORST!
Maybe with any luck, all the computers will start smoking and belching and will splort floppy discs all over the office. Then you will have to have a HazMat team come in and clear everything, and clean up the toxic data spewed on the floors, walls and ceilings.
And they may have to call in Crisis Intervention to talk your I-T people down off the ledge.
So, you may get your vacation after all.
12:23 pm on June 11th, 2012
And how come, when the Powers That Be decide to do something like this, they don’t think about their employees who actually have LIVES outside the office.
Mama quit a job once when they cancelled her long scheduled vacation that was to attend one of her very best friend’s law school graduation AND wedding. The company’s reason? “All vacations are cancelled for the week of xxxxx because our new office furniture will be arriving, and will need to be arranged.”
HA! So long company. (Of course, she DID have another job lined up to go to – and she DID call in sick on the days she had originally scheduled off. She is very, very bad)
12:48 pm on June 11th, 2012
Fire!…My friend is blowing smoke from her ears right now, but I can’t tell if its from the really close-by fire thats raging or because of her vacation being taken away…grump!
People fleeing the flames!…yeep!
12:59 pm on June 11th, 2012
Rio, that would burn us up too! Can’t your friend tell them sorry but this vacation was pre-approved and paid for? Sorry Bee
Bear, thanks for that link. We especially like the write-up of the book about Oogy. Why are there so many mean people though?
1:23 pm on June 11th, 2012
New Jersey recently enacted a law that allows a driver to be stopped and fined for “improperly transporting an anima”l.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-05-31/new-jersey-pets-vehicles/55305178/1
Now Tennessee passed a law making it illegal for us to ride in the front seat.
http://healthypets.mercola.com/sites/healthypets/archive/2011/05/12/tennessee-wants-pets-to-take-a-backseat.aspx
We always ride in the (precious) cargo area, but what about when we’re in a 2-seater? And not having our faces out of the window? That would defeat the whole pupose of a car ride!
1:24 pm on June 11th, 2012
New Jersey recently enacted a law that allows a driver to be stopped and fined for “improperly transporting an animal”.
Now Tennessee passed a law making it illegal for us to ride in the front seat.
http://healthypets.mercola.com/sites/healthypets/archive/2011/05/12/tennessee-wants-pets-to-take-a-backseat.aspx
We always ride in the (precious) cargo area, but what about when we’re in a 2-seater? And not having our faces out of the window? That would defeat the whole pupose of a car ride!
1:25 pm on June 11th, 2012
Here is a link about the N.J. law. We couldn’t post 2 links at once.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-05-31/new-jersey-pets-vehicles/55305178/1
2:35 pm on June 11th, 2012
O.Howlers: So, if we’re ever in Tennessee there will be no riding shotgun? That means you too, Chet.
They are taking away all our Dog given rights I tell ya!
2:46 pm on June 11th, 2012
GAH The busy place is really being unfair to Rio’s friend. This has already been said, but she deserves a longer vacation with pay after the stunt they pulled on her today.
I have no plans to go to New Jersey or Tennesee. I’m sure Chet doesn’t either.
That is a serious wildfire in Colorado.
2:50 pm on June 11th, 2012
Got my pretzels today! Can’t wait to try ’em.
2:51 pm on June 11th, 2012
Hello Ice.
Bear: Thank you for the link. The Chet and Bernie books are listed first!
2:57 pm on June 11th, 2012
Sorry about those problems that occured while we napped. We have a little bright spot – our Seed Box arrived from G & B. It is soo cute and Lily is going to love it. Can’t wait to see her so we can give it to her. Also got The Market Square Dog in the mail from Amazon (it was on the MMSB from Dawson, but we were too late). It is a darling little book, but now am wondering if it is too young for Lily’s reading ability. Think we will give it to her to read and pass to Ben, who can have his mama read it to him at bed time.
3:09 pm on June 11th, 2012
Hi Terry, thanks for reporting. Hi Ice!
I am freaking tired. Three hours driving. Did find the pool place, had arguments with GPS, couldn’t see Dan.
Why? Because the rehab place is in lock down. Why is it in lockdown?
There is a mama bear and two cubs running around on the property.
We’re going to see him tomorrow.
Must needs shut eyes.
3:23 pm on June 11th, 2012
Rio, no matter where that fire is coming from stay safe!
3:37 pm on June 11th, 2012
Bears!…Don’t those guys know the Bear-Fest is being held in another city?…snort!
3:40 pm on June 11th, 2012
Golinka!…I am supposed to ask you if you need someone to Kook and Klean for you for you in return for a place to live…sniff!…Oh and she says he has no animals…..wha?wait!
4:20 pm on June 11th, 2012
Rio – Mama says she is fine with kooking, but kleaning is not her favorite sport. But she says to brings animals by all means. wha?wait! We’re SURE she doesn’t mean Pugs…
4:33 pm on June 11th, 2012
Kats!…Tell Golinka I think it is urgent because she was Sputtering in her text message…sniff!…I’m sure my friend does not consider me to be a mere animal – now Beau is classified as a wild-animal….snort!
4:46 pm on June 11th, 2012
Bear & Nana – the books arrived safely 🙂
Onward Snowhook!!!
4:47 pm on June 11th, 2012
Beau can come live with me. I’ll even share some of my stuffed animals with him. Mom wants to know if Beau can clean.
5:04 pm on June 11th, 2012
Hey, y’all! Mom just came across this about FOC on Amazon.
Stephen King has called Chet “a canine Sam Spade full of joie de vivre.” Robert B. Parker has dubbed Spencer Quinn’s writing “major league prose.” Each of the books in this irresistible mystery series is a New York Times bestseller and now Quinn returns with a story that reveals the true magnitude of Chet’s star power.
Hoping to bring some Hollywood money to the Valley, the mayor lures a movie studio to town to shoot their next major production starring Thad Perry. Known for his bad behavior, Thad needs a babysitter and the mayor hires Chet and Bernie for the job. The money is good, but something smells fishy. When they dig into the details of an old crime, they discover that Thad has links to the Valley that go way back. To complicate matters, for some odd reason, Thad’s cat, Brando, seems hellbent on making trouble for Chet.
Like the winning books before it, this latest in the series offers a top-notch mystery and a rollicking good read about this irresistible human-canine P.I. team.
5:06 pm on June 11th, 2012
But Siber, remember what he does to noses!
5:07 pm on June 11th, 2012
BlueCat: Thanks for letting us know the package arrived safely. The background information you sent via SDD was very interesting.
MollyPop’s Mom: The USPS has failed us again. Your package was supposed to be there by Thursday, Friday the latest. Does it have something to do with the postal zone you live in? TYB’s dad seems to have the same issues with the USPS.
B: I can picture you clenching your teeth at that last sentence in Kirby’s post.
5:35 pm on June 11th, 2012
SiberH!…Beau is pretty much a Garbage-In – Garbage-Out kinda guy….sniff! …His vocabulary is very limited. Alas, Kleaning is not on the list of known words….chorkel!
5:40 pm on June 11th, 2012
Bear – I’ll check tomorrow. Strange things happen in ski country.
5:45 pm on June 11th, 2012
Bear: It’s like nails scratching a blackboard.
5:57 pm on June 11th, 2012
Poor B. Stover . .
Tonight is the first staged reading for YSAS. “War Wounds”
I’m praying that a producer likes him and wants to pay him to be in a movie and/or a play.
Just about awake . . in time to go to sleep.
5:57 pm on June 11th, 2012
We aren’t sure what some of you are discussing today. Were we sleeping through something important?
Here is a picture of our quilling. The picture does not begin to do it justice, or the way it looks with the dried flowers up top.
6:10 pm on June 11th, 2012
I have a picture of Sam that I took yesterday. She has longer hair so at Jacqueline’s Dog Salon this week they will probably give her a buzz cut. Poor aspiring actress Sam.
Also you can see how her tear-stained eyes have gotten better.
6:21 pm on June 11th, 2012
Sam, you are looking gorgeous! Have you eaten any chapstick lately?
Love where you put the Quilling (yes, that is with a capital Q), Oleyhowlers.
6:21 pm on June 11th, 2012
Sam is so cute!
6:25 pm on June 11th, 2012
Hi Sammy!
6:47 pm on June 11th, 2012
Sammy, you look MAHvelous!!
7:09 pm on June 11th, 2012
Melanie, I can smell two chapsticks in Molly’s Moms purse. I’m just waiting for my moment to pounce.
And I’m not having a hair cut!
7:18 pm on June 11th, 2012
Sam, That is a cute photo. You will feel better and be all perky for summer with a hair cut.
7:21 pm on June 11th, 2012
Fellow Sibers, The quilling looks very nice there. Rio’s friend’s art is now all over the country. How cool is that!
7:28 pm on June 11th, 2012
KirbyT, how will we ever wait until September!!! Maybe Spence will donate another ARC to the next Snowhook auction. Of course, they rapidly get out of Mom’s price range. Sounds like a great read!! (Sorry, B.)
Staff, we still haven’t received the Market Square Dog book we bought from the Snowhook store. We remember you posting that you had mailed it a couple of weeks ago. Hopefully, it is not lost in USPS ether-land. If you sent it media mail, that could explain the delay. It is slower than regular or parcel post. If it comes back to you, we still want it.
Terry, good reporting on your meeting with Spence. Think we have two Terry’s blogging now. Terry the person and Terry the dog in Canada.
G&BB
7:45 pm on June 11th, 2012
Snam, do you have a favorite Chapstick flavor?
8:02 pm on June 11th, 2012
G & B, We got Market Square today from Amazon. It actually was ordered thru Amazon, but came from a place called The Red Monkey Books. I would guess it to be maybe 4th to 5th grade reading level. We had no idea when we ordered it, since his All Creature series is an older reading level. It is a very cute story, and well illustrated.
We are going to try to watch a movie from Netflix which has been sitting here for about a week. Margin Call is the movie. I think it will be interesting, but I believe it is one you have to stay focused on, or it won’t make any sense. I wonder if they talk about tin futures? Ummm.
Later guys.
8:16 pm on June 11th, 2012
Siber-H, perky, schmirky! Not gonna happen.
Rose, I love all chopsticks. I’m never given a choice. I steal what I can.
8:20 pm on June 11th, 2012
G&BooBear: The dog in Canada is Terri (I think) – a Malinois type like myself, but a slightly different breed. Doesn’t Moe have the other Terry as his dad?
Don’t feel bad about your delayed package from Staff. Our Priority Mail package only reached the correct post office in NY today and it was mailed last Tuesday.
Barb&Magpie: We here watched The Note last evening which turned out to be a Hallmark movie (albeit without commercials) It was one of those feelgood, but predictable, type films.
Forgot the library opens late on Mondays so couldn’t pick up our book. Going now to check for new movies on Netflix and Prime.
Later – Bear
8:36 pm on June 11th, 2012
Bear has some of his facts straight. Terri is the Belgian Shepard living in Ontario, Canada with his mom Dorothy and Flower the kat.
Steve and Moe are from Michigan. Terry who posted this morning mentioned his guy Yuji to be a FOC.
Rio: How is that fire looking?
8:36 pm on June 11th, 2012
Moe has Steve for his dad. Steve still checks in occasionally.
I can no longer stay awake. sigh. Another day on the road tomorrow.
TTFN
9:06 pm on June 11th, 2012
T&G, would Chet be allowed at Rebecca’s Talk in the VFW?
9:45 pm on June 11th, 2012
Howlers – Chet and any other member of the Nation Within would be welcomed.
Mama is off in the corner gnashing her teeth. There is a super huge supply place she gets beads and stuff from. She fills her shopping cart a little at a time over a series of days as she checks her inventory.
Tonight she went to put in a few last things and check out and OH MY DOG – her shopping cart was empty. She had 180 things in there earlier today. Now they are all gone.
And customer service is closed – even though they were supposed to be there for another half hour.
Oh my – Mama is just pulling her hair out. How in the world is she ever going to reconstruct that whole order????
9:45 pm on June 11th, 2012
I have been in and out. Have we heard from Wookie?
Thanks ever so much for the wonderful surprise from the wonderful friend. Mom has been a little down in the dumps and the surprise really made her day.
10:06 pm on June 11th, 2012
Macy, please tell me what’s going on.
10:10 pm on June 11th, 2012
Hey Macy. Thanks for asking. I’m doing fine, just sort of hot here in Chevy Chase the past few days. Not Texas hot, but hot enough. Wookie
10:16 pm on June 11th, 2012
Wow!
Snowhook in Massachusetts…fantastic news. Golinka started up the Pink Bulldozer so watch out!
Catch Up!
I’m trying to catch up on several days of the blog but my eyelids are drooping.
Bad wildfires in Colorado. Stay safe Rio and friend. (whispering) You could be too sick to work but not too sick to go to the mountains. Don’t let Jasper’s friend hear me.
Jasper: Your little quilt is hanging on the footboard of my bed. I love the “falling star” mistake.
Terry: Thanks for the letting us in on the book signing.
Princess Sam: You will be a Princess with long hair or short, but don’t eat the chapstick!
10:26 pm on June 11th, 2012
Gus and BooBear.
I was going to send it Media Mail but it turned out that regular mail was pretty much the same so I sent it that way. It should have been received by now. The other things I sent were received.
I will check with Shelia at the Post Office. Darn it all. Those goats better not have been here in NoDak or they are goat toast!
10:29 pm on June 11th, 2012
Fire!…Last we heard before going outside was the fire here was 0% contained….wheeze!…Big Fat Zero Percent…huffle!
10:35 pm on June 11th, 2012
Depressed!…My friend is pretty depressed over her non-vacation…grunt!….Seems she just can’t catch a break when it comes to leaving this *(&(*@##$ house on her time off…sniff!
10:58 pm on June 11th, 2012
Rio: Please tell your friend we like the idea of cooking and cleaning and we accept animals.
11:08 pm on June 11th, 2012
If the pug’s friend came to clean here, she would be begging to go back to work.
12:38 am on June 12th, 2012
Well, we missed everyone again, but we have all kinds of good things going on for Miss Bella’s Star Turn here in Massachusetts.
And we would just like to state for the record that the band the performed on Letterman tonight sucked lemons and various other citrus fruits….
either that or we are just tired and grumpy.
Nope – they suck.
2:49 am on June 12th, 2012
Well, grump. I missed everyone who missed everyone.
Sam: You are perfect. Short hair, long hair, six pounds or even seven!
It was a busy day, a long day, and tomorrow is looking no different. Night all.
2:53 am on June 12th, 2012
Oh, before I forget, Tenzing is snoozing on, under or near the quilt. He went to the vet today for a dental cleaning and possible tooth extraction as a result of his disease. The vet called late in the afternoon and said it was worse than they expected and they wanted to keep him overnight because he was still sedated. He is fine, I am sure—this is the same vet office that treated and cared for Rory. They are very good to our dogs. Luna is a bit unsettled not having Tenzing here tonight and Belle Starr has already staked out her spot on his pillow—the best in the house and second only to our bed.
8:12 am on June 12th, 2012
Sweet dreams Tenzing . .
9:17 am on June 12th, 2012
On Long Island, every time some idiot lets their dog loose to attack somebody, even bigger idiots pass laws to make life worse for the 99% of us who take care of our dogs responsibly. We take some pride in being the most dog-unfriendly place in America.
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